volvojack wroteColonI know that Laikin' Is a Yorkshire expression for playing but when i try and Google it, there is not a clear definition.

Also we always used the Expression "Right as Ninepence" meaning we were O.K. Don't know where that came from

Funny you should mention this. A week or two back I was watching a Scandinavian thriller on TV and there was one short sentence about children playing I understood without subtitles because it was pure Yorkshire dialect It sounded like " the bairns were laikin ". I looked it up and the Swedish for play is "leka" and "leker" , Danish is "lega". So maybe a legacy of the Viking kingdom of Jorvik which covered most of Yorkshire? More simply, it could just be a corruption of " larking " as in "larking about".

It used to be said that the statue of the Black Prince had been placed in City Square , near the station, pointing South to tell all the southerners who've just got off the train to b****r off back down south!

volvojack wroteColonI know that Laikin' Is a Yorkshire expression for playing but when i try and Google it, there is not a clear definition.

Also we always used the Expression "Right as Ninepence" meaning we were O.K. Don't know where that came from

Funny you should mention this. A week or two back I was watching a Scandinavian thriller on TV and there was one short sentence about children playing I understood without subtitles because it was pure Yorkshire dialect It sounded like " the bairns were laikin ". I looked it up and the Swedish for play is "leka" and "leker" , Danish is "lega". So maybe a legacy of the Viking kingdom of Jorvik which covered most of Yorkshire? More simply, it could just be a corruption of " larking " as in "larking about".

Oh, dogduke and TABBYCAT, Such Memories of all these, especially as this amount of money coould mean the difference between "Flush or Borracic" There was a Regular lot of us used to play three card brag upstairs in the Lido Club, Albion Walk on a Friday night it was Half a crown to start the Pot so if there was about 8 players we would all throw in Half a Dollar and the Pole who was employed by the Club to Deal and make sure everything went smoothly used to take out 2/6 each time and then again take the same amount when the Pot went to the winner. As this went on for a few hours unless one was extremely lucky just about everyone in the early hours of the morning was feeling the effects of the game, plus the alcohol being served did not help the ambience so after a while my Pal and I would go down stairs and make our way home.

Sparrow numbers have fallen for many years now but one place there are still quite a few is in the Navigation Walk/Victoria Quay area near to Leeds Bridge. I thought of that word for sparrows when I was having a walk through that area yesterday (May 15 2018) and noticed several sparrows then (and other times in recent months). I wonder if their numbers are even rising as I have seen a few (but not many) recently in local areas where I've not spotted them for a long time.

I recently sorted through some old photo albums, and a newspaper cutting fell out dated 11th July 1987 from the Yorkshire Post ‘Old Yorkshire Diary’.I must have kept it as a photo showing the regulars of the Ingram Arms in Newtown was printed as part of the article which must have been taken at the same time as the two I have. My Grandmother’s two brothers and her father were in all of them. The article mentions ‘Fratching – or rows, was a great entertainment in Newtown’.I also thought middins was a local slang, until it was used on archaeology programs on TV.